Slaughterhouse Five

Before they were award-winning restaurateurs, Jeff and Joy Stehney, were award-winning barbecue cooks. Their competition barbecue team, named Slaughterhouse Five, has won grand championships in each of the last three decades, from 1992 to 2017. The team has won more than twenty grand championships overall, including state championships in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, as well as some of America’s most prestigious barbecue contests. Here is a sampling: